Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Pat Helland gave an awesome keynote last week at the p&p Summit. I wasn't able to blog about it until today as he gave the same talk at TechEd in Europe yesterday. You can read the abstract here. He got through over sixty slides in an hour so this just ...
Tags: Green IT, p&p, pnpsummit2008, Seattle
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
One of the questions I got at the p&p Summit after my distributed agile development talk was, how do you use Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) with distributed teams? This is an issue because VSS was never written with distribution in mind. The VSS client connects directly to the ...
Tags: Best practices, Distributed teams, News & events, Seattle, Visual Studio
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
On Tuesday at the p&p Summit in Redmond J.D. Meier talked for the first time about the work he's been doing on the new Application Architecture Guide 2.0 for p&p. We've just released a beta of this on CodePlex and are discussing some of the thinking behind it with the ...
Tags: News & events, p&p, pnpsummit2008, Seattle
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Kent Beck gave the keynote at the p&p Summit today and had some interesting thoughts on strategies for evolving your design. Leap from one design to another. This seldom works but when it does it's great. Parallel implementations of different designs, get them both working at the same time ...
Tags: News & events, p&p, pnpsummit2008, Seattle
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
This week is the patterns & practices Summit so I'm sitting in the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond. Tomorrow I'll be speaking about our experiences at p&p with distributed agile development and hopefully talking to some of our customers about their challenges in this area. Chris Sims reviewed the distributed ...
Tags: Distributed teams, News & events, pnpsummit2008, Seattle
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I'll be speaking at this year's patterns & practices Summit in Redmond, 3-7 Nov. The provisional lineup is now available.
I'm also writing a white paper on the same topic. If there are things you'd like to see covered in the talk or paper then I'm looking for feedback. Post a ...
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, News & events, Seattle
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
The Agile Beer nights are back. Check out http://agilebug.com/ for more details:
We the practitioners of Agile and users of Beer, hereby proclaim Agile Beer Night.
The Agile Beer Users Group (Seattle Chapter) will be meeting on Thursday Aug 21, for information sharing, networking, agile discussions, a brief topic presentation on Automated Acceptance ...
Tags: Agile, News & events, Seattle
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Dates for p&p Summit 2008 have been announced: November 3rd to 7th 2008. Lots of exciting speakers like Kent Beck will be there for you and some not so exciting ones... like me.
Apparently I'm speaking. How do I know? Well my name appears on the presenters page along with a ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events, p&p, Seattle
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Erwin just started with the patterns & practices Dev Team. He already has a blog and will be joining the Composite Application Library (CAL) team as they start work on their next project. His blog already includes a post on module loading for CAL.
We've had quite a few new people join ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events, p&p, Seattle
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I was able to show up for the first half of the ALT.NET Seattle on Saturday and managed to attend two of the open spaces. It was a great group of people and I learnt a lot from the two talks I went to on agile without management buy in ...
Tags: Agile, ALT.NET, DDD, Dynamic languages, Management, News & events, Seattle
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